Cyndi Key

 

My mom’s stomach started getting swollen and blowing up like she was pregnant. She started having tremendous pain in her stomach and back. So I took her to the ER. They ran tests on her and said they couldn’t find nothing wrong with her, and that she should follow up with her primary care physician.

The ER nurse’s quote was,”take her to her primary, we don’t diagnosis patients, we just treat their symptoms.” So she did and no one could find out what was wrong with her.

So months go by and no one knows whats wrong with her. In and out of ERs , doctors calling her a medical mystery….no one helping us at all, just sending her in and out of hospital. Her legs swelled and became full of blisters, and were literally dripping water out of them so bad that I had to wrap them in towels so she didn’t soak the floor or slip when she walked due to the draining of water from her legs.

My mom became very weak. She couldn’t walk by then and was always sleeping and started acting weird, like in her moods. She started getting disoriented and strange. So I told myself that was it, I have to make these doctors listen to me. Mind you, I had taken her to doctors and ERs through these months and no one did or knew nothing.

Finally I got fed up and took her back to ER and I was determined to make them hear me and make them help my mom. So before I went, I emailed the head of the ER, explaining to him that no one was helping my mother and someone needed to help me. He did call me the next day and told me he was so sorry and to bring my mom in and so I did just that.

As soon as I got her into the waiting room, I called the head of ER and he met me in waiting room and took my mom in, and they admitted her. She was diagnosed with severe sepsis and liver failure.

It took them almost 1 year to find out what was wrong with my mother and uncomfortable. On May 11, 2016 my mom died. One month after being diagnosed. The sepsis had ruined her organs and heart and she ended up one night throwing up blood and died from her heart stopping, due to loss of blood.

Not until my mom died did I ever hear of sepsis….it hurts me so much that my mother could still be here with me if they would have found out sooner. My mom was the glue that kept our family together….the best and most fun loving, full of life person you could ever meet. She helped out with everyone and everything, and would just spontaneously start dancing or singing in the middle of the store, just to make someone laugh…haha….I miss her so much…she was loved by so many….and my promise to her when she passed was that I would never let her life, her love, and memory be forgotten. Every chance I get to talk about her or bring awareness I will do it. I will tell her story….I love you mom. Always.

Source: Sylvia Guerra (Cyndi's daughter)